constant chatter about Montgomery County schools being better
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Anonymous
+1 Are there great schools in DCPS? Sure. Is DCPS, as a system, far less resourced and far more dysfunctional than MCPS? Also yes. If you can afford in-bounds for JKLM, great. If you can’t, the “lower tiers” of MCPS are generally far better than various DCPS options. That’s part of it, too: MCPS has more options, for all kinds of things. |
Anonymous
| MCPS likely used to be better and now likely at parity or DC schools slightly better. DC has had Better leadership and not so many curricula changes (corruption issues). Gosh I can’t believe I just wrote that DC school admin more honest than MCPS but it’s true. |
Anonymous
One of the most ignorant post in this thread. |
Anonymous
I like that MCPS reviews and changes curricula that aren't up to par. DCPS should be doing that. |
Anonymous
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MCPS has many more good high schools than DCPS.
As a HS teacher in DCPS, the limited options are frustrating. I can only teach at JR, Walls or Banneker. My strengths don’t fit well with the other DCPS high schools. I’m not very happy with the administration at my current school but I feel stuck. Seriously considering applying to MCPS for next year although they pay a bit less than DCPS. |
Anonymous
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My kid is not too happy at JR. Said the kids are too woke and it stifles class discussions.
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Anonymous
Sounds like they would be happier in Alabama. |
Anonymous
You would fit right in at JR. If you are not ultra liberal, they assume you must be republican. There is no nuance. Pretty dumb actually. |
Anonymous
Actually, I am from Alabama. Get your MAGA gear together and join us! |
Anonymous
They can take kids from Sidwell and St. Albans to check that box with a much higher likelihood of giving as alumni. |
Anonymous
| They want a mix of DC students, not just private school students. |
Anonymous
OK, but things aren't this simple. Great DCPS schools don't come with the built-in administrative support that MCPS schools provide, whatever tier they're on. For example, most DCPS principals are hired on one-year contracts, three years tops. In MCPS, most principals are on five-year contracts. No MCPS high school is at something like 175% capacity JR, not even close. That's because many by-right/neighborhood high schools in MoCo appeal to most-inboundary residents, not just one high school (JR) like in DC. Also, MCPS doesn't face competition from charters. When we had issues with bungled class assignments, mishandled AP testing, a teacher leaving mid-year and not being replaced at JR, there was essentially no recourse. In MCPS, where my nieces and nephews attend upper-tier schools, parents can go up the chain to complain with a much higher chance of success than in DCPS. MCPS has never experienced the dysfunction of DCPS because they're in a state as much as anything else. DC is a merely a city with a high poverty rate. |
Anonymous
| +1. Unresponsive admins and nobody competent up the chain to help. |
Anonymous
All the public schools are woke including MCPS. If you don't want woke, go to one of the catholic schools. Neither DCPS or MCPS approach anything remotely close to the wokeness of GDS, Sidwell, etc. |
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What's unclear to me, is when people speak of kids taking a high number of APs, eg, above 7... are they talking about taking just the class? Or taking the exam and getting at least a 4 or 5. My understanding is that the grade in an AP class is less important (grade inflation, hard to tell what an "A" means between different schools), and the AP score is more important, bc it is a national standards and a 4 or 5 is the same regardless of school or region.
I could imagine a kid taking 10-12-15 AP classes. Less so 10-12-15 AP tests and scoring 4 - 5 on all of them |